Unable to select folders to include/exclude through file-picker

I'm unable to select folders to include or exclude through file-picker:

open the app
select Preferencies
switch to Folders
click on + either under "Folders to Back Up" or "Folders to Ignore" (behavior is the same)
select any folder in the file picker
attempt to click on "Add" button.

The issue is that the "Add" button is grey - disabled.

There is nothing related to this in default logs. When I start the app with more verbosity:

$ flatpak run -d --command=sh org.gnome.DejaDup
[📦 org.gnome.DejaDup ~]$ DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 deja-dup

and then follow same steps as above, after 4th step I get bunch of warnings:

(org.gnome.DejaDup:3): GVFS-WARNING **: 14:13:10.469: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/18031/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(org.gnome.DejaDup:3): GVFS-WARNING **: 14:13:10.472: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/18031/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(org.gnome.DejaDup:3): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:13:10.555: GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SELECT_FOLDER is not supported by GtkFileChooserNativePortal because portal is too old

(org.gnome.DejaDup:3): GVFS-WARNING **: 14:13:10.588: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/18031/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(org.gnome.DejaDup:3): GVFS-WARNING **: 14:13:10.588: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/18031/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(org.gnome.DejaDup:3): GVFS-WARNING **: 14:13:10.590: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/18031/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(org.gnome.DejaDup:3): GVFS-WARNING **: 14:13:10.591: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/18031/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

(org.gnome.DejaDup:3): GVFS-WARNING **: 14:13:10.592: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/18031/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

18031 is my UID.

I have tried to override privileges:

$ flatpak override org.gnome.DejaDup --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd
error: Permission denied
$ sudo flatpak override org.gnome.DejaDup --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd
$ sudo flatpak override org.gnome.DejaDup --show
[Context]
filesystems=xdg-run/gvfsd;

then kill all running instances to make sure those permissions are applied and ran the app with verbose log. There was no change in behavior, issue persists.

As a side note, I'm able to remove entries from folders by clicking on - (minus) sign.

I'm using Déjà Dup Backups in version 43.1:

$ flatpak info org.gnome.DejaDup

Déjà Dup Backups - Protect yourself from data loss

          ID: org.gnome.DejaDup
         Ref: app/org.gnome.DejaDup/x86_64/stable
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: stable
     Version: 43.1
     License: GPL-3.0-or-later
      Origin: flathub
  Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: user
   Installed: 183.8 MB
     Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/41
         Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/41

      Commit: 96a4271b597b789c87f8ac0ce71d56a062341823255c55e8b63858823db3ecd2
      Parent: c6a8f14de6b19b7ce5be8a4bd1687c1328f361c5ae74a5ab3813c8c65f1a65e5
     Subject: Update to 43.1 (ceea23cd)
        Date: 2022-01-05 22:32:49 +0000

Hello! I'm sorry that Deja Dup is giving you a hassle.

That's an odd error - we do have --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd permissions set on the flatpak already. And you even manually gave yourself the permission.

I've not heard similar reports yet of this and can't reproduce myself. So at least this doesn't sound like a widespread problem.

I'm not sure what to try next to debug this. Have you used bustle before? It might shed some light on dbus traffic that could be relevant (some gvfs communications happen on dbus).

I also note that your user id is 18031, which feels unusual. Is your user/desktop setup particularly interesting in a way that might be a clue?

Hi all. I'm getting this error too. My last (daily) backup that ran successfully is reported as being 2 days ago.

This is what I've started getting:

flatpak run org.gnome.DejaDup

I'm then asked to Grant Access to my Onedrive backup location. This outputs the error message below, opens my web browser at the appropriate OneDrive page "Are you trying to sign in to DejDup backups?". Clicking "Continue" on the page produces no result.

The expected result would be for backup to proceed.

(org.gnome.DejaDup:2): GVFS-WARNING **: 15:31:50.774: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error when getting information for file “/run/user/1000/gvfsd”: No such file or directory. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

This error message is new to me, though Deja has been running in the background on this machine for some time.

Happy to provide more information to help

`flatpak info org.gnome.DejaDup

Déjà Dup Backups - Protect yourself from data loss

      ID: org.gnome.DejaDup
     Ref: app/org.gnome.DejaDup/x86_64/stable
    Arch: x86_64
  Branch: stable
 Version: 44.0
 License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  Origin: flathub

Collection: org.flathub.Stable Installation: system Installed: 166.2 MB Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/43 Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/43

  Commit: b0c8464da96102fed09c62c9a2f14b0d85f7de329dce3599fb61e00d81c50eaf
  Parent: 05ec1a904e821787b27795e9459b7d118ca6d53a2e0a7e378c38333395229cdd
 Subject: Update to 44.0 (9f5f4664)
    Date: 2022-11-26 01:41:39 +0000

Hmm, there was a new release not long ago (44.0, which you have). It didn't change anything that is likely to affect this.

But... I'm wondering if just the process of updating the flatpak is screwing us up. If you reboot / relogin to a fresh session, do things improve?

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

A reboot and relogin produces the same result.

Here is what changed on my system 3/4 days ago through normal updates.

Start-Date: 2023-01-29 08:58:27 Commandline: packagekit role='update-packages' Requested-By: rick (1000) Upgrade: openjdk-11-jre:amd64 (11.0.16+8-1~deb11u1, 11.0.18+10-1~deb11u1), libcurl4:amd64 (7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3, 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u5), libcurl4:i386 (7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3, 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u5), openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 (11.0.16+8-1~deb11u1, 11.0.18+10-1~deb11u1), libcurl3-gnutls:amd64 (7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3, 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u5), libcurl3-gnutls:i386 (7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3, 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u5), curl:amd64 (7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3, 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u5) End-Date: 2023-01-29 08:58:38

Start-Date: 2023-01-30 07:53:15 Commandline: packagekit role='update-packages' Requested-By: work (1001) Upgrade: git:amd64 (1:2.30.2-1, 1:2.30.2-1+deb11u1), libtiff5:amd64 (4.2.0-1+deb11u1, 4.2.0-1+deb11u3), libtiff5:i386 (4.2.0-1+deb11u1, 4.2.0-1+deb11u3), libtiff-tools:amd64 (4.2.0-1+deb11u1, 4.2.0-1+deb11u3), git-man:amd64 (1:2.30.2-1, 1:2.30.2-1+deb11u1) End-Date: 2023-01-30 07:53:25

System = Debian 11.

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